For all this talk of Civil War in Iraq, it's actually already happening here in the U.S. within our party and within the journalistic community.

What we're seeing in this country is a split between the base and the DLC/Clinton crowd and another split from the Bloggers and the Ivory Tower journalists, news anchors and pundits. The DC-beltway crowd point their fingers at the bloggers and the base of the Democratic Party as the new 1968 Wing-Nuts. Funny, how DC forgets their role in the mess we're now in nationally.

It wasn't the bloggers nor the base that went along and marched us into the Iraq war so blindingly.

It wasn't the bloggers nor the base that gave no fight at all to Justice Alito.

It wasn't the bloogers nor the base that didn't question the thoroughness of the 9/11 commission's hearing of Rudy Giuliani.

It wasn't the bloggers nor the base that gave an amplifer to the Religous Right to scream their holier-than-thou diatribes on news networks night after night (and in the morning first thing before the cooking segment...my God..)

It wasn't the bloggers nor the base that ran away from the basic rights of LGBT Americans because they thought it would offend the Fox News voters they so desperately thought they needed to get out on election day and vote for them.

It wasn't the bloggers nor the base that was airing "When the war starts, you'll see it here FIRST..." promotional spots nearly a week before the actual war in Iraq began and while the Bush administration was claiming that they didn't want war unless all other options ran out.

It wasn't the bloggers nor the base that didn't criticize adminstration officials when they needed to be questioned and held accountable ony to end up slowly but surely forfeiting their 1st Amerndment rights as journalists because of the adminstriation's clamp down on the reporting of classified information that the American public needed to know about because it contradicted statements and policies that the current administration was making in public.

Despite what the Beltway thinks, the Democratic Party of 2006 is not really in a Civil War with itself. It's just speaking up for itself as a whole instead of allowing a few with big mouths and power hungry fetishes to speak for us.

You see, unlike the current GOP, we are not the Party of Ultimate Power. Of Obey or be Punished. Of second and third-class citizens. Of follow our God Only. Of calling all others that don't agree with us as committing treason against America and abetting the terrorists (like VP Cheney did last night once again.)

We are not the party of Hitler. And we definitely don't use Hitler imagery to raise money.

What are you more afraid of? 9/11 happening again? Or the GOP?

Because when you come to think about it- they're both financed and carried out by people out to terrorize America.